Despite repeated commitments by governments around the world to ensure women’s equality by repealing discriminatory laws, sex discrimination persists, including in citizenship and nationality1 laws. This is damaging to the lives of women and their families. Although there has been some progress, with a number of countries recently…

By Soraya L. Chemaly No one wants to go to war. Before we commit soldiers and societies to inevitable sacrifice and atrocities, we try to balance the inevitable harm against the potential good. We seek to make the wars we undertake “just” by applying defined criteria to a scale…

https://www.youtube.com/embed/X0N-tNu6FlQ?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent Democracy Now!: Longtime anti-eviction activist Ada Colau recently became the first female mayor of Barcelona, Spain. She has vowed to fine banks, stop evictions, expand public housing, improve wages, force utility companies to lower their prices and slash the mayoral salary. She has called bankers “criminals” and…

Die Dienstkarte hat sie mitgenommen. Sie ist ein wenig abgegriffen nach den Jahren. Darauf ist ihr Foto zu sehen, unter ihrem Namen steht „Vorsitzende“. Einen Stempel der Organisation gibt es auch, alles wie es sein muss.„Majcina Kolevka“ steht auf der Karte, das heißt „Kinderwiege“ und ist eine Organisation,…

…there is enough reason for the assumption that in future all refugees entering Germany shall be locked up. It is also assumed that the number of deportations will increase enormously. The basic right of asylum and the right to have a “fair” access to an asylum procedure will…